The popular avant garde

"The popular avant garde" / edited by Renée M. Silverman
Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.
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  One of the popular avant-garde artists in the 20th Century, David Alfaro Siqueiros. He is a Mexican social realist muralist and painter,  which interested in using new materials and method, for instance gun cotton and pyroxylin. Siqueiros had a honor at the Contemporary Art Exihibition at the St.Regis gallery, and prepared political art workshop in 1936. Most of his works is related to the politics since he was captived frequebtly. However, he still kept his faith.

  He though that the Italian Renaissance's murals are the public art which meaningful and accessible to people. This idea deeply affect the minds of Mexican avant-garde artist.